"Cool white" works perfectly and I keep them 1 inch above the plants. Just move the links in the chain as needed to raise the light as the plants grow. I saw some tomato transplants one time that were 18 inches tall and only a few leaves right at the top due to the light placed too high and the plants were trying to get to it.
Ken Hargesheimer On 3/31/07, Susan Shear <s_shear at yahoo.com> wrote: > > I just took a seed starting class at the University of Connecticut. The > instructor told us that he uses shop lights that hangs from chains and > reguluar flluorescent bulbs. He said the key was to keep the light 3" from > the top of the seedlings (thus the need for the chains) because light that > is too far away from the seedlings causes spindly growth. > > - Susan > > Mike McGrath <MikeMcG at PTD.net> wrote: > I just use the cool whites as I'm mostly doing it to grow nice big starts > for transplant. Theoretically, you should mix for flowering plants--but I > have to say that mine flower great under just the cools... > ---Brightly lit Mike McG > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Diana Jancek" > To: > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 10:00 AM > Subject: [Community_garden] flluorescent bulbs > > > >I know this info was posted some time ago, but could anyone tell me what > >kind of fluorescent bulbs are used in grow lights? A friend told me that > >they use one "cool white" and one "warm white" bulb in pairs. > > Thanks, > > Diana Jancek > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of > > ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and > > to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org > > > > To post an e-mail to the list: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org > > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: > > > http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of > ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to > find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org > > To post an e-mail to the list: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: > http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20070331/0e56eb75/attachment.html > _______________________________________________ > The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of > ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to > find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org > > To post an e-mail to the list: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: > http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20070331/85b5ddc0/attachment.html
